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But these structural consistencies have always been meaningful in One Piece, there's no basis for the assertion that it's meaningless. Even without these motif it's still strange for some mostly unremarkable 3rd subordinate to beat the first of another Yonkou. That position carries with it a lot of significance as we seen in the case of Marco after WB died. Katakuri has been strongly developed as a threat as well.

If Whitebeard's first mates really were that exceptional we would have seen that clearly in the war, instead we mostly got them being dominated with a few instances of them being able to "hang with" admiral level fighters

They are meaningful but that doesn’t mean there’s a 1:1 correlation.

Its because they they were so exceptional that they could waltz up to the strongest military force in the world, despite a dying captain, and almost win.

Vista fought on par with Mihawk, Katakuri never. I dont know why this is difficult for your brain to grasp.

It makes sense that WBs crew is stronger than the average yonkous crew, he never would have been confident he could save Ace if he had people like Cracker as his third best. The commanders showed they where good enough to rescue Ace in MF, Ace just made a mistake

Vista didn't fight "on par" with Mihawk

Vista stalled him to allow Luffy to escape and him and Mihawk had the swordsman equivalent of getting coffee together before fucking off and deciding to do something else.

And that one instance does not invalidate the majority where Vista/Jozu/Marco performed embarrassingly if you're holding them to the same standards as an admiral

The rest is history: Kong very skillfully discovered our group (that was not even hidden) and spent long wet days exploring every thread, going through every post and stalking our entire stack byte by byte, until he found about 2 or 3 questionable instances, and proceeded to make the dish richer with creative additions like hardcore lolicon porn or the infamous star children pics -whatever it's supposed to mean- and soon after i logged in to me being the Al Capone of children trafficking, ordering constant refill of actual holo 3D virtual reality cp videos, and something about emma watson whose meaning and origin i've yet to understand, since it's definitely the most bizarre claim on top of a cake of more or less unbelievable bullshit. At that point, i wasn't much shocked of Kong, cuz he was just being the slimy Kong we all know and love, but of GP, who i've always seen as the scales balancer between me and Pops in the past, and now he'd be very unbalancedly deploying all his rethorics against me and that circle of people, making a long shade of made up stuff, banning us one by one without giving the chance to speak, hiding the group from everyone's eyes with all the evidence it contained, and proceeding to a fervent damnatio memoriae for still long time after the ban.

Can you tell me what says that Vista cant keep up with Katakuri if he can keep up with Mihawk? Im just going facts that happened in the manga

How about the litter of scenes showing Mihawk failing to dispatch enemies far weaker than Vista. The dude was strolling through Marineford without a care in the world and one little clash with Mihawk is enough to cement Vista as being stronger than Katakuri? We've been told the Yonko have all clashed numerous times and Katakuri is still defeated. You think he was just fighting the fodder in Whitebeard's crew all that time?

Literally, why would a Third Mate be heads and shoulders above another Yonko's FM. The best you could ask for is that Marco maybe high high-diffs Katakuri, not this Vista >> Katakuri line

Mihawk asked Vista to back off, and Mihawk is on Kaidous level. If Vista was as strong as Cracker at best, why wouldnt he just one shot him like Kaidou did to Luffy this chapter? You guys talk about inconsistency but they go both ways, all we really have at the end of the day is evidence of whats happened

Mihawk asked Vista to back off, and Mihawk is on Kaidous level. If Vista was as strong as Cracker at best, why wouldnt he just one shot him like Kaidou did to Luffy this chapter? You guys talk about inconsistency but they go both ways, all we really have at the end of the day is evidence of whats happened

How about the litter of scenes showing Mihawk failing to dispatch enemies far weaker than Vista. The dude was strolling through Marineford without a care in the world and one little clash with Mihawk is enough to cement Vista as being stronger than Katakuri? We've been told the Yonko have all clashed numerous times and Katakuri is still defeated. You think he was just fighting the fodder in Whitebeard's crew all that time?

Literally, why would a Third Mate be heads and shoulders above another Yonko's FM. The best you could ask for is that Marco maybe high high-diffs Katakuri, not this Vista >> Katakuri line

The fights between Yonkos are never decisive, and just because Katakuri clashes with different people doesnt mean he outrights beats them or vice versa. You can have skirmishes with no winner, much like we saw at MF

Mihawk asked Vista to back off, and Mihawk is on Kaidous level. If Vista was as strong as Cracker at best, why wouldnt he just one shot him like Kaidou did to Luffy this chapter? You guys talk about inconsistency but they go both ways, all we really have at the end of the day is evidence of whats happened

Because of Mihawk's personality. No, seriously. He wouldn't want to kill swordsman worthy of his respect, and we really haven't seen Mihawk get serious against anyone so far.

The body of evidence shows Vista performing far more modestly and it's that we should be giving more consideration

The fights between Yonkos are never decisive, and just because Katakuri clashes with different people doesnt mean he outrights beats them or vice versa. You can have skirmishes with no winner, much like we saw at MF

If the Whitebeard Pirates were as powerful as you're saying they were, they would have no problem winning in these little skirmishes.

And for those peddling the bigger crew argument, let's not act like any Yonko with Haoshoku wouldn't dispatch the majority of those pirates within 2 seconds.

The rest is history: Kong very skillfully discovered our group (that was not even hidden) and spent long wet days exploring every thread, going through every post and stalking our entire stack byte by byte, until he found about 2 or 3 questionable instances, and proceeded to make the dish richer with creative additions like hardcore lolicon porn or the infamous star children pics -whatever it's supposed to mean- and soon after i logged in to me being the Al Capone of children trafficking, ordering constant refill of actual holo 3D virtual reality cp videos, and something about emma watson whose meaning and origin i've yet to understand, since it's definitely the most bizarre claim on top of a cake of more or less unbelievable bullshit. At that point, i wasn't much shocked of Kong, cuz he was just being the slimy Kong we all know and love, but of GP, who i've always seen as the scales balancer between me and Pops in the past, and now he'd be very unbalancedly deploying all his rethorics against me and that circle of people, making a long shade of made up stuff, banning us one by one without giving the chance to speak, hiding the group from everyone's eyes with all the evidence it contained, and proceeding to a fervent damnatio memoriae for still long time after the ban.

We saw Vista fail to get past intangibility, so explain to me why you think he can hurt Katakuri. Im just going facts that happened in the manga

Whitebeard failed to get past the admirals intangibility numerous times, fights between top tiers are complicated and we dont quite know how it really works logia intangibility really works at the top level. If we assume Haki is related to how focused you are in the fight it would make sense they couldnt get past his intangibility if they just saw Ace and Whitebeard die, and where likely both mentally and physically exhausted at that point.